MUSSET (Alfred de). - Lot 130

Lot n° 130
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MUSSET (Alfred de). - Lot 130
MUSSET (Alfred de). La Mouche. Preface by Philippe Gille. Paris : Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, 1892. - In-8, 234 x 155 : portrait, (2 ff.), XVI, 84 pp., (2 ff.), illustrated cover. Lilac morocco, first cover decorated with a frame of flowering forget-me-not branches mosaicked in dark green and brown-green morocco, tied with purple morocco ribbons in the center of the sides, similar motif reduced in the center of the second cover, spine ribbed, quadruple gilt fillet inside, brocaded silk lining and endpapers, double guards, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept, case (Gabrielle Leroy-Desrivières). First separate and illustrated edition of this novel by Alfred de Musset. It is decorated with thirty compositions drawn and engraved by Adolphe Lalauze, among which a portrait of the author in frontispiece, after the pastel of Landelle made in 1854, a portrait of the same one, child, after van Brée, reproduced in full page, a vignette on the cover, another one on the title, eight in the text, six chapter headings, six caps and six full page compositions. Edition at 500 copies; this one is one of the 300 on Arches vellum. A very fine copy in a contemporary mosaic binding. According to a card written by Mrs. Vidal-Mégret, preserved inside, this binding would be of Madame Gabrielle Le Roy-Desrivières. Spine faded.
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